mlx-community/gemma-3-1b-it-8bit
LM-STUDIO GGUFMar 5, 2026 · Apple M4
deepseek-r1:7b
OLLAMA GGUFqwen2 · 7.6B · Q4_K_M
Mar 6, 2026 · Apple M4
Global Score
72 vs 77
Hardware Fit
99 vs 94
Quality Score
61 vs 70
Hardware
mlx-community/gemm… deepseek-r1:7b
MachineMacBook AirMacBook Air
CPUApple M4Apple M4
Cores1010
RAM32 GB32 GB
GPUApple M4Apple M4
OSmacOS 26.3macOS 26.3
Archarm64arm64
Power Modebalancedbalanced
Performance
mlx-community/gemm… deepseek-r1:7b
Tokens/sec86.322.2
First chunk253 ms285 ms
TTFT253 ms285 ms
Load timeN/A0.8 s
Memory usage1.1 GB7.6 GB
Memory %4%24%
HW Fit Score Breakdown
mlx-community/gemma-3-1…
Speed
50/50
TTFT
20/20
Memory
29/30
deepseek-r1:7b
Speed
44/50
TTFT
20/20
Memory
30/30
Quality
mlx-community/gemma-3-1…
Reasoning
7/20
Coding
14/20
Instruction
16/20
Structured
14/15
Math
2/15
Multilingual
8/10
Reasoning: Weak Coding: Adequate Instruction Following: Strong Structured Output: Strong Math: Poor Multilingual: Strong
deepseek-r1:7b
Reasoning
14/20
Coding
12/20
Instruction
10/20
Structured
12/15
Math
15/15
Multilingual
7/10
Reasoning: Adequate Coding: Adequate Instruction Following: Adequate Structured Output: Strong Math: Strong Multilingual: Adequate
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